Question

Sports are played all around the globe, but some places have an unusual taste for action. Read to the description that follows about a sport called Extreme Ironing.

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Extreme Ironing is an extreme sport and a performance art. People who play this unusual sport go to a remote location and iron clothes! They call themselves ‘ironists’, and get a thrill from taking their ironing board, unplugged iron and some of their wrinkly clothes to some extreme places and photograph themselves doing it. Such places that they have reached include extreme altitude, underwater, hanging from cliffs, and on top of vehicles. […]

KHAN, Ejaz. Top 10 Unusual Sports in The World. Wonderslist. Available at: . Accessed on: 9 May 2016.
Read the description, and complete the sentences about Extreme Ironing with the correct form of the verb be.
1. Extreme Ironing
a dangerous sport.
2. ‘Ironists’
Extreme Ironing players.
3. Extreme Ironing
a dangerous sport.
4. People who play unusual sport
completely safe.

Answer 1

Neste caso há a conjugação do verbo to be para as diferentes pessoas (nestes casos, extreme ironing, terceira pessoa do singular e extreme ironing players e people, que neste exigem a conjugação do verbo na terceira pessoa do plural).

O verbo To be conjuga-se do seguinte modo:

I am
You are
He/she/it is
We are
You are
They are

Aplicando para os exemplos:

1. Extreme Ironing is a dangerous sport.
2. ‘Ironists’  are Extreme Ironing players.
3. Extreme Ironing  is a dangerous sport. (Há repetição aqui?)
4. People who play unusual sport are completely safe.